Sign up for our 2025 Pollinator Patch Program

Do you want to add some native plants to your existing garden? Or perhaps you'd like to start a garden bed that focuses mainly on native plants to help provide the perfect food for bees, butterflies, other pollinators, and birds?  Maybe you want to plant a community pollinator garden at a school, church or in a park or condo? Let’s work together to plant native species all across Ottawa South!

About our kits

🌱 Size: Our 2025 kits will have between 16 and 21 plants; enough to fill a bed 3 ft by 6-7 ft 

⛅Garden locations: We have kits for sunny and partial shade/shady gardens, and medium to dry soil conditions.

🌱 We provide kits with species to bloom in spring, summer and fall. A typical kit will have 1-3 plants of each species, and more than one species per season.  The list of species that we are growing for our Pollinator Patch kits this year is here.

Things to consider

This is a summary - please visit the signup form for full details.

🌱 The main distribution eventwill happen on Tuesday, May 27 from 4 pm to 7 pm at Brookfield High School.  Please only request a kit if you are available to pick up the last week of May.

💧 You must be able to care for (water) your plants this spring, summer and early fall.

❓ Supplies are limited. Priority will be given to OSEAN volunteers, to residents of / community gardens in Ottawa South, including Alta Vista, River, Gloucester-Southgate and Capital Wards, and to community pollinator gardens open to the public in nearby wards (at schools, churches, etc.).

💲 We offer these kits free of charge. If you have the financial means do donate, we appreciate donations of $20 (or more!) to help defray costs such as soil, pots, trays, and plant markers.

Ready to join the movement? Click here to fill in the application form!

Check out our Pollinator Patch page for more information about native plants.